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get a grip on

Also, have a grip on. Obtain mastery or control over something or someone. For example, Get a grip on yourself or the reporters will give you a hard time, or, as Arthur Conan Doyle put it in Sherlock Holmes (1894): “I have a grip on the essential facts of the case.” This expression transfers a firm physical hold to emotional or intellectual control. [Late 1800s]

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Nearby words

  1. get a dirty look,
  2. get a dose of one's own medicine,
  3. get a fix,
  4. get a fix on,
  5. get a free hand,
  6. get a hand,
  7. get a handle on,
  8. get a head start,
  9. get a kick out of,
  10. get a life
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